Ask AP: Road salt and health, an in-flight birth
A baby’s citizenship usually has something to do with the country where she’s born, or the one where her parents are citizens. But what if she begins life on a trans-Atlantic flight, thousands of feet in the air?
That’s one of the questions in this edition of “Ask AP,” a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers’ questions about the news.
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Pathway Medical Technologies, Inc., an innovator of endovascular treatments for peripheral arterial disease (PAD), announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has given the company clearance to market Jetstream(TM), a peripheral atherectomy catheter designed for use in the treatment of PAD in the lower limbs. The clearance marks the company’s second 510(k) clearance and the first device on the market capable of treating an entire spectrum Read the rest of this entry »
C and E in hopes of reducing their risk for heart disease, and some research supports those hopes. But a large long-term trial has found that the supplements work no better than placebos.
Scientists enrolled 14,641 male physicians in the study, dividing them into four groups of roughly 3,600 each. The first took 400 international units of vitamin E every other day and 500 milligrams of
daily; the second, vitamin E and a placebo vitamin C; the Read the rest of this entry »
Newswise — Nearly every child who receives an antipsychotic medicine is first prescribed one of the second-generation, or “atypical” drugs, such as olanzapine and risperidone. However, there has never been evidence that these drugs are more effective than the older, first-generation medications.
Now a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine suggests that molindone, a first-generation drug, is as effective Read the rest of this entry »
Nov 20, 2008 (financialwire.net via COMTEX) –
— November 20, 2008 (FinancialWire) — SyntheMed, Inc. (OTCBB:
) (Current Market Cap: US$12.27 Mil.) said that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market SinusShield, a bioresorbable membrane intended to prevent post-operative adhesions in nasal and sinus surgical procedures.
According to SyntheMed, there are around two million nasal and sinus procedures performed annually in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
| Friday, January 23, 2009, 07:39 AM
Gym Ratz Fitness Center in Wellington sponsored a free fitness weekend to benefit the Kids Cancer Foundation of South Florida.
The weekend started with a kickoff party on Jan. 16 that included three hours of music and dancing provided by Millennium Entertainment, activities and crafts sponsored by Learning Express and food donated by Chili’s. Special guests included local children battling cancer and Read the rest of this entry »
DALLAS
— A woman who never saw a doctor even though she waited 19 hours with an injured leg in Parkland Memorial Hospital’s emergency department got a bill from the hospital for $162.
Amber Joy Milbrodt, who said she fractured a bone in her right leg while playing volleyball, received the bill two weeks after her Sept. 24 visit.
“It should have been more like them paying me for having to sit in the emergency room for 19 hours. That’s Read the rest of this entry »
CLEVELAND – The woman attacked at the Metroparks in Lorain County back in May is back in the hospital.
Shawn Stevens left the hospital four months ago but her husband, Mark Stevens, said she is back in the hospital Saturday.
Mark Stevens said his wife came down with a cold a few ago, which caused the lower lobe in her lungs to collapse. It also caused Shawn Stevens to get pneumonia.
The doctors at the hospital say she has three blood clots in Read the rest of this entry »
The economy is in tatters, domestic carmakers are gasping for life and rising food and energy bills are at the forefront of American families’ budget woes.
While President-elect Barack Obama’s to-do list of domestic fixes will be long and pricey, perhaps no reform will be as controversial as his vow to overhaul the nation’s health-care system.
The Clinton administration’s attempt at comprehensive health-care reform in the early 1990s met a buzz Read the rest of this entry »
2:05pm UK, Tuesday January 27, 2009
A woman has given birth to eight babies in California, stunning doctors who thought she was expecting seven.
Left to right, delighted doctors Karen Maples, Mandhir Gupta and Harold Henry
The children, who are in intensive care but are said to be “doing very, very well”, are only the world’s second live-born set of
.
They were born nine weeks prematurely by Caesarean section over a period of five minutes Read the rest of this entry »